Research & Scholarship

Recent Publications (2005-2010)

Representations of the Menstrual Cycle: Special Issue of Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Editor, with Chris Bobel), 2010, in press.

Book review: The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth Century America, Social History of Medicine, 23, 443-444, 2010.

Menstruation. In Theresa Vaughan and Liz Locke, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of women's folklore and folklife. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.

Menarche stories. In Theresa Vaughan and Liz Locke, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of womens folklore and folklife. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.

Capitalizing on the curse: The business of menstruation. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.

Review: Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, by Virginia Blum. Western Folklore, 64, (1/2) 130-33, 2005.

Other Writing (2009-2010)

Ms. Magazine Blog - Contributor.

re:Cycling - the blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Contributor and Managing Editor. 

Media Mentions (2009-2010)

Ads for Pads: Can A Guy Sell Menstrual Products?, by Zosia Bielski, The Globe and Mail, September 2, 2010.

The Plastic Project Part 3: What's In Your Tampons?, by Virginia Sole-Smith, Planet Green.com, July 1, 2010.

Seeing Red: A Cultural History of Menstruation, by Mary O’Connell, CBC Radio, June 14 & 21, 2010.

How the Pill Changed the World, Radio Interview,KCBS, May 11, 2010.

Oral contraceptives have had broad impact but some seek alternatives to the pill, by Melissa Bell, Washington Post, May 11, 2010.

Reproductive Writes: I Choose My Choice: An Interview with Elizabeth Kissling, by Holly Grigg-Spall, Bitch Media Blog, March 22, 2010.

It’s 2010, So Why Are We Still Having Periods?, Company (British women’s magazine), February 2010, (pp. 76-78).

Women’s eNews, Journalist of the Month, November 2009: “Kissling's Menstruation Blog Talks All About It”, by Jackie Bischof, Women’s eNews, November 18, 2009.

A campaign that erases a layer of euphemisms, by Andrew Adam Newman, New York Times, March 19, 2009.

Recent Presentations (2005-2010)

Pills, Periods, and Postfeminist Identity: The New Politics of Birth Control. Plenary presentation, 1st Annual EWU Philosophy Conference, Eastern Washington University, April 9-10, 2010.

Pills, Periods, and Postfeminism: The New Way to Market Birth Control. Paper presented at annual Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, March 10-12, 2010.

Thinking Outside the Big Red Box: Would You Like Fries with That? Paper presented at Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 11-13, 2008.

To Bleed or Not to Bleed: Media Coverage of Cycle-Stopping Contraceptives. Paper presented at annual Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, March 12-14, 2008.

Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation. Presidential Invited Address, Division 35, American Psychological Association. San Francisco, August, 2007.

Teaching the Cycle: A Workshop in Curriculum Design (with David Linton and Chris Bobel). Workshop presented at biannual meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2007.

Manipulating Menstruation for Fun and Profit. Poster prensented at annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2006.

Menstruation and Consumer Culture: Can You Buy In Without Selling Out? Paper presented at biannual meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Boulder, Colorado, June 2005.

Panelist, Scholarship in the Information Age: A Roundtable on the Changing Nature of Research Production, Access, and Information/Media Literacy. Northwest Communication Association, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, April 2005.

Get Your Rag On: Can You Celebrate Menstruation Without Selling Out?. Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research Series, Women''s Studies Program, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, February 2005.